Quotes About Accuracy

If the evidence is suspect, so is the result.

We tan the way lawyers tell the truth, never on purpose and never very well.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.

there is little reason to believe that managers or other authorities will make more accurate predictions than anyone else about which new ideas will succeed and fail.

did miss with the first shot, I'd be able to get off at least three shots before you get more than four hundred yards out on your horse," Jess replied bluntly. "What if you miss with all three shots?" Jess finally put the cartridge back into his front pocket. "I'd feel bad about it, but

More people perish than want to. Death comes running with astonishing speed, strikes his victims with marvelous accuracy. These include generals, doctors, governesses, soldiers, policemen, ministers. None of them pass away peacefully, as it says in the newspapers. Their executions are violent enough.

How many people get their stories right from day to day?

The rancor ushered in a golden age of literary assassination in American politics. No etiquette had yet evolved to define the legitimate boundaries of dissent. Poison-pen artists on both sides wrote vitriolic essays that were overly partisan, often paid scant heed to accuracy, and sought visceral impact.

Father was never willing to pay a bill which he did not know to be correct in all its items.

As I began my life as a bookkeeper, I learned to have great respect for figures and facts, no matter how small they were.… I had a passion for detail which afterward I was forced to strive to modify.

he realized that he could get an approximate answer that was "good enough" in a short time

A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

Don't aim for the middle of the body, which is easier to defend; aim high for the head or low for the knees.

an average infantryman records one enemy fatality for every fifteen thousand combat rounds expended.

Reacher fired. Single shot. Range, eighty feet. Nine-millimeter Parabellum, 124 grains, full metal jacket. Muzzle velocity, more than eight hundred miles an hour. Time to target, less than a fifteenth of a second. Virtually instantaneous.

The round hit the guy high on the back, dead center, at the base of the neck. A spine shot. Lucky. Reacher had been aiming lower, at center mass. The biggest part of the target. Always safest. With an in-built advantage. Center meant center. There was stuff on the edges, side to side, and especially up and down. The legs and the head. Misses had somewhere to go.

Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds.

She crawled on. She wanted to get closer. She knew the numbers. A thirty-round magazine would be gone in two seconds. She wanted to make both of them count. She wanted to get lucky. If she hit one and he hit one, that was two less for later. Which was good.

Although saying this, I realize it may have been illusory. Memory's oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.